Gung ho or too tentative? Pep panics as City's glass jaw breaks again Jonathan Wilson
almost 5 years in The guardian
Manchester City’s much-admired manager last won the Champions League in 2011 and is seemingly haunted by a 2014 thrashing his Bayern Munich side took from Real Madrid
Manchester City can talk about individual moments. They can point to the volley that Gabriel Jesus fluffed and to Raheem Sterling’s miss. They can quibble about Lyon’s second goal, the collision between Moussa Dembélé and Aymeric Laporte and the offside that wasn’t given. They can probably convince themselves they were unlucky. But the fact remains that in four years under Pep Guardiola, the most lavishly funded project in the history of football has never got beyond the quarter-final of the Champions League.
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